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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Tuesday, June third, and welcome to Morning Run.
Speaker 1: I may be Roeboch.
Speaker 2: You didn't seem sure at the top there, Amy Robock,
Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes and look, folks, hope you all are
Speaker 2: getting a good start to your day. It's just a
Speaker 2: rough news cycle to the point that we couldn't take
Speaker 2: any more news this morning. And we are right now
Speaker 2: looking at a TV with reruns on it because we
Speaker 2: just needed something pleasant in the back.
Speaker 1: You be honest, what the rerun is?
Speaker 2: I'll sudden you up to tell them I have no
Speaker 2: problem today.
Speaker 1: Right now we are watching Golden Girls. That's a first
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know what, folks, in all seriess is
Speaker 2: just because the news cycle, there's so much negativity out there.
Speaker 2: There's boar, there's violence, there's even the damn eruption of
Speaker 2: a volcano. It just everything seems a little scary and
Speaker 2: even for us, so we want to put something on
Speaker 2: in the background.
Speaker 1: Betty White makes everything better.
Speaker 2: Yes, she made us smile, but we do have to
Speaker 2: get to several major news stories this morning on this
Speaker 2: Tuesday day Morning Ron, Yes, we will have more details
Speaker 2: to tell you about here in just a moment for
Speaker 2: the man charged in that Bolder terror attack. This man
Speaker 2: now is a father of five, we found out, and
Speaker 2: he said that he would do it all again and
Speaker 2: wish they all had died. We'll give you more of
Speaker 2: those latest details.
Speaker 1: Plus we have an update from a Manhattan courtroom. Sean
Speaker 1: did he Comb's lawyers accused of badgering a key prosecution
Speaker 1: witness in another contentious day in court. And one of
Speaker 1: the escape New Orleans inmates shows up on social media
Speaker 1: to defend himself while managing to remain on the run
Speaker 1: from authorities.
Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, Mount Etna sends folks
Speaker 2: running with a spectacular eruption, but Italian officials say there's
Speaker 2: nothing to worry about. Also, one airline says expect airfare
Speaker 2: to be at historic lows this summer. There is a catch, though,
Speaker 2: you have to fly out of one particular problem prone airport. Also,
Speaker 2: Trump is treating his president portraits like Instagram selfies. Don't
Speaker 2: like it, change the filter and repost. We'll explain why
Speaker 2: the presidential portrait is already robes being updated. He'd just
Speaker 2: put a new one up when he was inaugurated, and
Speaker 2: already there's a new one with yes, a new filter conder.
Speaker 1: I think that's so funny. I didn't even imagine likening
Speaker 1: it to changing your your Instagram selfie, but that is
Speaker 1: exactly what he's doing. All right. We will get to
Speaker 1: that in just a moment, but we have to begin
Speaker 1: our run once again in Boulder, Colorado, where there are
Speaker 1: more disturbing details about that terror attack along Pearl Street.
Speaker 1: Forty five year old Mohammed Sabury Solomon has been charged
Speaker 1: with a federal hate crime and sixteen counts of attempted
Speaker 1: murder after police say he attacked that group of people
Speaker 1: who were peacefully demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages.
Speaker 2: And the police say Solomon used a Molotov cocktail, burning
Speaker 2: twelve people ranging in age from fifty two to eighty eight,
Speaker 2: all while shouting Free Palestine. The FBI also said Laoman
Speaker 2: had sixteen unused Molotov cocktails that were within arm's reach
Speaker 2: when he was arrested. Ones in custody, Solomon reportedly told
Speaker 2: investigators he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished
Speaker 2: all of them dead. Also, he had zero regret. Reportedly
Speaker 2: saying he would do it all again.
Speaker 1: Solomon also told investigators he had been planning this attack
Speaker 1: for more than a year, delaying his plans until his
Speaker 1: daughter graduated from high school. Yes, Solomon is a husband
Speaker 1: and a father of five. He is also in this
Speaker 1: country illegally, authorities pointed out after his tourism visa expired
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. He then got a work permit,
Speaker 1: but that expired in March.
Speaker 2: The court document's show Sunday's attack could have been far worse.
Speaker 2: He took classes to learn how to fire a gun,
Speaker 2: but he couldn't purchase one because of course he's not
Speaker 2: a legal citizen. A judge has set his bond at
Speaker 2: ten million dollars. He'll be back in court later this week.
Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run this morning. A
Speaker 1: key prosecution witness wrapped up her third day of testimony
Speaker 1: Monday in the Ditty trial, which was described as combative
Speaker 1: at times. She's been testifying under the pseudonym Mia to
Speaker 1: protect her identity, and she spent much of the day
Speaker 1: holding her own against intense cross examination from defense lawyers
Speaker 1: who've been trying to chip away at her credibility.
Speaker 2: A reminder hear Mia worked for years as an assistant
Speaker 2: to Sean Combs, and in addition to witnessing alleged violent
Speaker 2: and abusive behavior by Ditty, she claims the music mogul
Speaker 2: raped and sexually assaulted her on several occasions over the years.
Speaker 2: The defense tried to use her own words against her
Speaker 2: by showing numerous texts exchanges in which she praised or
Speaker 2: expressed love and adoration for cons.
Speaker 1: She defended those exchanges with Combs by saying she was
Speaker 1: brainwashed by him. At several points, defense lawyer suggested Mia
Speaker 1: had made up the assault allegations against Combs and even
Speaker 1: said she joined the Me Too money grab against Ditty.
Speaker 1: There were several prosecution objections during the cross examination, and
Speaker 1: at one point prosecutors complained to the judge that the
Speaker 1: defense was badgering the witness.
Speaker 2: Now, Mio wrapped up her testimony yesterday and after that
Speaker 2: a custodian from the Beverly Hills Hotel took the stand.
Speaker 2: This is one we wondered openly, like, wow, I wonder
Speaker 2: what a custodian could possibly tell, And well, we did
Speaker 2: get an idea. She walked the jury through some of
Speaker 2: the hotel receipts from Diddy's hotel stage and kind of
Speaker 2: broke down some of the items that were on there.
Speaker 2: One receipt that was shown had an extra charge for
Speaker 2: drapes that were quote soiled beyond what is normal end.
Speaker 1: Quote ew and another showed a five hundred dollars charge
Speaker 1: for oil damage. A security guard from an La hotel
Speaker 1: is expected to be called to the stand first this morning,
Speaker 1: and a third alleged Comb's victim, who is another Jane Doe.
Speaker 1: She's going by the name Jane I believe, is expected
Speaker 1: to testify it this week as well. All right, next
Speaker 1: up on the run, One of the two remaining escape
Speaker 1: inmates may have been found on social media pleading his
Speaker 1: case to the public all while still at large. In
Speaker 1: a post that has since been deleted, it appears it's
Speaker 1: thirty two year old and Twan Massey, who is arguing
Speaker 1: that he is being unfairly named the mastermind behind the
Speaker 1: jail break.
Speaker 2: Okay, Massey says to camera, they say that I broke out.
Speaker 2: I didn't break out, I was let out. He also
Speaker 2: goes on to say that he left jail because he
Speaker 2: was being charged for a crime that he didn't commit. Sure,
Speaker 2: he's the first person ever arrested to say that Massey
Speaker 2: was being held on charges of domestic abuse involving strangulation
Speaker 2: and motor vehicle theft. And he's also wanted on suspicion
Speaker 2: of kidnapping and rape.
Speaker 1: Yes, and he apparently has a lot of experience getting
Speaker 1: out of custody or as he puts it, being let
Speaker 1: out of custody. Please say this is his fifth attempt
Speaker 1: at escape if you include that time or two when
Speaker 1: he cut off his ankle. Monitors, Massey is one of
Speaker 1: two men who is still on the run after a
Speaker 1: total of ten inmates escaped from a New or Lynch yald.
Speaker 1: This happened all the way back on May sixteenth.
Speaker 2: Okay, he has some other things to say on social media.
Speaker 2: Took issue with one of the people arrested in helping
Speaker 2: the inmates in their escape, jail maintenance worker Sterling Williams.
Speaker 2: This was the first guy who was identified and arrested.
Speaker 2: A police say he turned off the water to the toilet,
Speaker 2: which allowed the inmates to then rip it out, and
Speaker 2: then there was a hole in the wall they could
Speaker 2: run out of. So in his video, Massy says that
Speaker 2: this guy, Sterling, flat out lied on me saying he
Speaker 2: never threatened to shank him. That was William's original story,
Speaker 2: that the reason I cut off the water. These guys
Speaker 2: threatened that they were going to hurt me. That's why
Speaker 2: I threw it off. Then he changed his story after
Speaker 2: he got a lawyer, after he got arrested and said no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: Another guard actually asked him to shut off the water
Speaker 2: after a nearby toilet overflowed, so he was just doing
Speaker 2: his job, ropes.
Speaker 1: I do find it somewhat humorous that Massey, with all
Speaker 1: of the things he's accused of, wanted to correct the
Speaker 1: record on two things in this social media post. He
Speaker 1: was not the mastermind, and he never threatened to shank
Speaker 1: the prison guard. So here those are the two things
Speaker 1: he needed to set the record straight on.
Speaker 2: You know what, I think he might be telling the
Speaker 2: truth on those. You know what. You remember when you
Speaker 2: were a kid, you get accused of stuff all the
Speaker 2: time by your mama, and you're usually guilty, and then
Speaker 2: the one time she says something you didn't do, you
Speaker 2: go crazy. Ah no no, no, no, no, no. It's that
Speaker 2: thing to where all he didn't talk about any of
Speaker 2: the other stuff, but those two things I want everybody
Speaker 2: to know he might be telling the truth.
Speaker 1: Is a little bit humorous and a very serious story.
Speaker 1: By the way, there is a fifty thousand dollars reward
Speaker 1: for information leading to the recapture of Massey and the
Speaker 1: other inmate on the loose, who, by the way, is
Speaker 1: a convicted double murderer, Derek Groves. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: concern over that guy being on the loose. Police continue
Speaker 1: to warn residents. Yes, both men are armed and very dangerous.
Speaker 2: What did you say was the number up to that
Speaker 2: there were more people who've been arrested for helping the
Speaker 2: guys than we saw.
Speaker 1: Fifteen fifteen people and counting have been arrested either before, during,
Speaker 1: or after helping the inmates escape. And yes, those two
Speaker 1: men are still on the loose.
Speaker 2: Some of these details are wild, but you have to
Speaker 2: remember they have been under siege and fearful. They're in
Speaker 2: the community in New Orleans for a long time. These
Speaker 2: guys aren't just wanted for petty theft. This is some
Speaker 2: of the most serious stuff out there.
Speaker 1: And they're getting help from people harboring them or at
Speaker 1: least allowing them to stay out of prison where police
Speaker 1: are reminding everyone that's where they belong.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, we'll continue our Tuesday morning run with
Speaker 2: this and Robes we don't say this often. We wish
Speaker 2: we were back on TV doing the news right now,
Speaker 2: just for this one, this one story though. Yes, we
Speaker 2: wish we could show you this, because the pictures are incredible.
Speaker 2: Europe's largest and most active volcano, Mount Etna, has been
Speaker 2: putting on a spectacular show, and we're going to do
Speaker 2: our best here to just tell you about it in
Speaker 2: the most descriptive way possible. Maybe you can go back
Speaker 2: and look up the images yourself, but we're going to
Speaker 2: describe it the best way of we. Candle or Robes
Speaker 2: going to do it for you.
Speaker 1: Right now, let me give it a try. Mount Edna,
Speaker 1: situated on the picturesque Italian island of Sicily, started erupting
Speaker 1: early yesterday, sending a large light and dark gray plume
Speaker 1: of gas, rock and ash miles up into the air well.
Speaker 1: That mix of gas, rock and ash might be spectacular
Speaker 1: to look at, but it's called a pyroclastic flow, and
Speaker 1: it is in fact dangerous. And despite the videos out
Speaker 1: there that appear to show frightened tourists running from the volcano,
Speaker 1: Italian officials say there is no threat to the population.
Speaker 2: Well done, I think you don't close your eyes. You
Speaker 2: took me there. Thank you for that. Mount Edna is
Speaker 2: as one of the most active volcanoes in the world
Speaker 2: and has had a dozen eruptions this year, but the
Speaker 2: current one is in fact the most dramatic that we
Speaker 2: have seen in twenty twenty five. It is important to
Speaker 2: note here all tourists are accounted for. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of social media videos out there, people running naturally
Speaker 2: you would, but they get a lot of tourists I
Speaker 2: have I've never been to Sicily. I al't know if
Speaker 2: you've ever been.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Sicily. That should be on our list.
Speaker 2: But one point five million visitors out there every single year,
Speaker 2: so it is a very popular spot. But the pictures.
Speaker 1: Are probably made more popular after that second season of
Speaker 1: White Lotus, which was set it was well, it was
Speaker 1: near Sicily. I think it was Sicily.
Speaker 2: I can't remember where they were.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful Italian island that I would like
Speaker 1: to visit soon.
Speaker 2: They were just in Thailand. The first one was.
Speaker 1: Where the first one?
Speaker 2: Okay, really okay, now I think you okay, now that
Speaker 2: we figured all that out, folks say whether us we're
Speaker 2: going to continue our morning run in just a moment
Speaker 2: when we come back. You need to hear this. We
Speaker 2: are being told that the lowest airfare in history is
Speaker 2: going to be available for you this summer. There is
Speaker 2: a catch that catches the airport you have to fly
Speaker 2: out of. Also, one other story, people are crashing their heads.
Speaker 2: Why did President Trump need an update to his presidential
Speaker 2: portrait that just went up five months ago.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to our Tuesday morning run, and travelers out there,
Speaker 1: listen up. Book your flights right now because the cheapest
Speaker 1: plane tickets in history will be available this summer.
Speaker 2: Oh, no way that's the case. It's got to be
Speaker 2: a catch, Robes, what's the catch?
Speaker 1: You gotta fly out of Newark?
Speaker 2: Okay, so what you're saying here historically low ticket, fly
Speaker 2: at your own risk is what we're talking about here. Yes,
Speaker 2: Newark International. Sorry to dump on the all, but a
Speaker 2: lot of people have been a little nervous, including us.
Speaker 2: We've canceled at least one or.
Speaker 1: Two two We've changed two flights and switched airports and
Speaker 1: paid more money to so.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't have to fly out of Newark International. This
Speaker 2: airport has had a string of negative headlines lately. But
Speaker 2: say negative headlines. There's been negative issues, equipment failure, staffing shortages,
Speaker 2: ground stoppages, cancelations, you name it. But the United Airline
Speaker 2: CEO Scott Kirby did come out yesterday. He acknowledged that, yes,
Speaker 2: the headlines have turned people off from flying out of Newark.
Speaker 2: Newark of course a major United Airlines hub, so they're
Speaker 2: seeing planes take off that are not full. There are
Speaker 2: a bunch of seats.
Speaker 1: Available, all right, So Kirby said, this lack of demand
Speaker 1: has left, yes, a lot of seats empty, which will
Speaker 1: keep prices historically low. In fact, let's quote him directly,
Speaker 1: the CEO of United Airlines said this, it's going to
Speaker 1: be the cheapest it's probably ever going to be in history.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you that makes me want to
Speaker 1: go on United right now. Say my origin airport of
Speaker 1: origin is Newark, and see where the winds could take us.
Speaker 2: Would you take it? Though? Given all the issues there?
Speaker 2: I mean, how much of a discount do you have
Speaker 2: to have we canceled and paid more for a flight.
Speaker 2: How much of a discount for you to go to
Speaker 2: that area?
Speaker 1: The truth is, I wasn't that deeply concerned about safety.
Speaker 1: I was more deeply concerned about delays and cancelations and
Speaker 1: me having to deal with the headache of that. But
Speaker 1: I would consider it. The price be low enough. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have a price.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, Roebuck has a price we will give.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should follow up tomorrow and let folks know
Speaker 2: what we have books final leg. You know what, I
Speaker 2: already know where we're going, Okay, Navis, Oh, yes, obviously
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm in Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: The final leg of our run. Here now President Trump's
Speaker 2: brand new second term presidential portrait that hangs you know
Speaker 2: the ones that hang at all the federal buildings. Well,
Speaker 2: it's coming down from all the federal buildings and it's
Speaker 2: going to be replaced by another and newer portrait of
Speaker 2: President Trump.
Speaker 1: The White House unveiled a new presidential portrait yesterday, and
Speaker 1: this all comes just five months after they unveiled his
Speaker 1: new second term portrait. Why the updated pick, We have
Speaker 1: no idea. The White House did not give any explanation.
Speaker 1: So what is the difference in the pictures?
Speaker 2: There's like, well, I guess it's I don't know maybe
Speaker 2: it's a little dramatic. This isn't dramatic. And the first
Speaker 2: one he's wearing a blue tie and the second one
Speaker 2: he's wearing his signature red tie. Not a big deal,
Speaker 2: he switched ties. The new one also has a black,
Speaker 2: solid black background, as opposed to the other one that
Speaker 2: had American flag and part of a wall behind him. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: but here's the key. If you look at them and
Speaker 2: don't think anything of it, he does look softer and
Speaker 2: gentler in this new, updated one. Because a lot of people,
Speaker 2: you remember the first one, they said he looked menacing.
Speaker 2: It looked like his ten Yeah, it looked like his muckshot. Okay,
Speaker 2: they said, so they didn't give They put out a
Speaker 2: seven second video of them just putting up a new
Speaker 2: portrait and didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: That's kind of funny.
Speaker 2: He's an image guy. Maybe he just said I want
Speaker 2: a new.
Speaker 1: Picture, and maybe it was kind of embarrassing, so we
Speaker 1: figured if he just quickly put it up, no one
Speaker 1: would notice. You know, it's so embarrassing if you change
Speaker 1: your profile picture. I don't know if it still does this,
Speaker 1: but I think it's on some of the social media accounts.
Speaker 1: It sends out a message to everybody like Amy has
Speaker 1: updated her profile picture, like, no, I don't want people
Speaker 1: to know that that's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: You can turn that off. You don't have to put
Speaker 2: it out there. Okay, but he has a new photo
Speaker 2: and look, it's softer lighting on his face, and he
Speaker 2: does he looks. He doesn't look as menacing as he
Speaker 2: is in the first one.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well then I guess he made the
Speaker 1: right choice. We'd like to leave you today with something
Speaker 1: to think about as you make your way on this Tuesday.
Speaker 1: And again, we mentioned this yesterday, but we are going
Speaker 1: to spend every day giving you a new Gabby Bernstein quote.
Speaker 1: She is the amazing self help guru who we are
Speaker 1: going to share the incredible conversation we had with her
Speaker 1: over the weekend, So look out for that episode coming
Speaker 1: into your feeds. But here is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorites obstacles.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, wow, Okay, I didn't know. I didn't know
Speaker 2: I was done already.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry, you're right. That was your cue to read.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 2: Usually we usually do a back and forth thing, but
Speaker 2: I didn't know we were going more Roebok heavy on
Speaker 2: this particular episode, So go right a please, my love,
Speaker 2: please read it. Here is your quote of the day, folks.
Speaker 2: Obstacles are detours in the right I love that one too.
Speaker 2: It's so simple and poignant. It's so great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when something happens and you can't you can't get through,
Speaker 1: you can't figure it out. You keep trying and it
Speaker 1: just isn't happening, that means you're supposed to go in
Speaker 1: another direction. And I just think if you can look
Speaker 1: at it like that, it can be less. It's less
Speaker 1: about being frustrated and it's more about being guided. And
Speaker 1: I do like that concept that the universe has your
Speaker 1: back and you got a trust in it. Obstacles are
Speaker 1: detours in the right direction. Thank you, Gabby Bernstein, and
Speaker 1: thank you for running with us on this Tuesday. Everyone.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Roebuck. Oh.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say my name for
Speaker 2: me too. I didn't know I was supposed to still
Speaker 2: be talking in this one. I'm t J.
Speaker 1: Holmes.
Speaker 2: We'll see you guys tomorrow.